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Movies, especially comedies, never paint a positive picture of any hobby, pastime or leisure activity. They are just formulaic plot devices to create comic characters and situations (in the loosest sense of those terms).

Sports fans are drunken louts (or at least that’s the way they are portrayed in the UK), people who play sports are dumb jocks and anyone who plays a musical instrument is either a stoner in some cliched rock band or some dork in an orchestra. Add a pair of glasses or a can of beer to each appropriate stereo type and you have a framework for a movie.

So gamers are now being lampooned. So what? Best to roll with it, because excessive complaining will just backfire and play into the hands of those who wish to mock. Don’t give them the pleasure of rising to the bait.

As my Grandad use to say, it’s not the insult that counts but who says it. As this is coming from an industry that is mainly bereft of any wit, intelligence and insight, I’d say there’s precious little to be upset about.

I think it’s less about twisted knickers and more about being flabbergasted that someone, somewhere, thought that this was a good idea for a movie. It’s garbage not because it’s a poor satirizing of a hobby, but because it’s just that awful.

I’d look on it as a bit of a positive step forward, actually. That cybergaming and gamer jargon has moved into the mainstream sufficiently for the bulk of people to vaguely understand wtf a word like “noob” implies (even if they get the exact semantics wrong.) Enough to bother making a movie out of it.

First it was D&D and tabletop gaming. It was, what, the spawn of Satan for a while, then it started getting lampooned in TV cartoons and comedies, and seems to have moved off the radar now, leaving toy miniatures as just something people do / kids play with (Heroclix? Skylanders, if we stretch it?).

Comics and the fantasy genre as a whole weren’t given much attention either, besides being classified as weird or childish. Now look at ALL the movies with comicbook superheroes or fantasy/magic tropes being made once the suits realized how much $$$ they could make. Tolkien? Harry Potter? Part of the mainstream now.

Possibly in 10 years or less, we’ll have competitive cybergames and commentary on the TV in other countries besides just Korea, or have a lot more development on it internet-wise.

How desperate for money is Adam Sessler to agree to be in this movie? Additionally, you gotta love how frequent there were clips of strippers in the preview, which means one of two things: 1. They spend a lot of time in a strip joint or the more likely one… 2. Visit a strip club once in the movie, show multiple clips from the one scene to sex up the movie and try to get people interested in it.

And a story in the titles:
Wanderlust
Cupid
The Girl From The Naked Eye
2 Days In New York
The Hunger Games
The Aggression Scale
The Sleeper
The Pregnancy Project
The Pact
The Vow
The Marriage Chronicles
The Gospel Of Us
The Trouble With Bliss
The Grind
Bending The Rules
Barbie In A Mermaid Tale 2
Suspicion
Why Stop Now
The Teenie Weenie Bikini Squad
The Raid
The Forger
The Rift
What Goes Around Comes Around
Crisis Point
What My Husband Doesn't Know
Unstable
The Devil Inside
Lizzie
True Bloodthirst
Devil Seed
Best Laid Plans
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
Brake
Falling Away
Gone
Love Never Dies

the guild does a wonderful job portraying how the gamers, even stereotypical ones actualy are, while being funny and over the top, so.. I have to admit, I laughed in few places. but I watched the trailer with a sort of disconnect.

Grandma’s Boy is one is the worst, if you ask me. It does nothing to help lift off the stereotypes and instead plays to the base assumption that that gamers are basement-dwelling stones who can’t associate with women. I don’t know about you guys, but that doesn’t apply to most gamers I know.